Dr. Deborah Lekan (Nursing) received new funding from the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses for the project “Frailty Risk Using EHR Nursing Data for ICU Transfer and Mortality.”
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the performance of a Frailty Risk Score (FRS) derived from nursing flowsheet data in the electronic health records (EHR) of hospitalized adults 50 years and older admitted to a health system during 2013 to 2017 for two outcomes: Time to ICU transfer, and in-hospital mortality. Applying frailty in risk prediction models may improve model performance and identification of high risk patients who need more resource-intensive care and care coordination.
